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Relearning the Lessons. John Terraine’s 1984 WFA Address

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Relearning the Lessons. John Terraine’s 1984 WFA Address  John Alfred Terraine, FRHistS (15 January 1921 – 28 December 2003) Abstract:  In his 1984 address to the Western Front Association (WFA), John Terraine, the Honorary President, reflects on the enduring lessons of the First World War and their often overlooked relevance to the Second Wor...


History's Greatest Heist: the Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks by Sean McMeekin

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Yale, 2008 $38, 228 pp, ills, index.  ISBN 978 0 3001 3558 9  This is a factual tale of cops and robbers, mainly robbers, who claimed they were Robin Hoods expropriating the expropriators to benefit the proletariat. Almost all the gold, currency, silver, jewels and jewellery the Bolsheviks seized from Russian and foreign bankers, industrialists,...